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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER November 4, 1957 Feel a Tug? Free a Soul by Geraldine Battista All too often in our busy lives we tend to stress the material rather than the spiritual. We pray for the lady next door who is undergoing surgery, the safety of our loved ones throughout the day, and maybe for help in tomorrow's exam ination. Just ask yourself bow often you remember to pray for the poor souls of even your own deceased relatives. Perhaps if we read of Dante's experience when he entered purgatory it would awaken in us a fervent desire to help the poor souls through our prayers. If we could feel tugs at our sleeves and hear the voices begging us to remem ber them in our prayers as Dante did, we would speak to God. When Blessed Mary of Providence, foundress of the Helpers of the Holy Souls was still a child she told her playmates, God keeps the souls in purga tory but will let them go free if we ask llim. The trouble is we don't. Blessed Mary of Providence did not abandon her childhood fervor since her life and the order she founded are dedicated to the help of the holy souls. Her whole life was spent in offerings for the Church Suffering. If two great people, Blessed Mary of Providence, founder of a religious order and Dante, author of a literary gem of the ages, so strongly advocated prayers for the poor souls, how can we close our ears to their plea. Student View Student Teachers Tales Told Out of School Apple sales will boom this week. Thousands of little children in the city will seek to win favor with their teachers. This is National Education Week. Dedicated to learning, we turn to our student teachers to ask them this all im portant question, What is the most amusing situation that you have met as a student teacher?'' One of the most shocking revelations comes from Virginia Bishop. She in formed us that children don't bring apples to her as a token of affection, but one little child calmly handed her a tooth. Children are so thoughtful. Eileen Poterek is brave enough to take her second grade students on a trip to a dairy. She leaves the trip to our ima gination, and tells us about the thank- you letters the children wrote. The more uncomplicated children generously told the dairy owner, You have a very nice company. Another, impressed with the health - improving qualities of milk, wrote, Milk is a strong maker. Speak Up Freshmen Gain Yards With Kick-Off Play n Benefit Season ti about following directions. Workbook assignments given the class consisted of drawing a line through a picture cor responding with a word in the first column. One child recognized all the words which are usually considered diffi cult for a first grade student. Only one word bothered him. His spell ing failure was immediately discov ered when his book was turned in. He had artistically drawn a lion, complete with bushy mane and wag ging tail, through every picture. After hearing these tales told out of school, a question entered my mind. If Thank-you notes written by the children wtft student yi(JW gt; but was in who didn't make the trip followed this stea( a faculty view column, what amus- general pattern: The rezun I di lt; ;mr STnries wo11ih ni,r teach* tell Ami go was becus I had the flu bug. ing stories would our teachers tell about us? Mary Ann Cashman is fostering the progress of a future master- weaver. This craftsmanship was discovered one day when Mary Ann was observing the class while the regular teacher was teaching. Over in the corner where the disci plinary problems sit with their backs to the wall, out of the teacher's range, sat a small boy making rather peculiar ges tures. Mary Ann crept up close behind him. He was laboriously stretching out a wad of bubble gum into a string, concen trating on it as he drew it out as long as he could. Then, very carefully and stu diously, he slowly wound the string of gum around his two index fingers. He repeated the process again, giving it his whole attention. Suddenly he became aware of the ominous presence of Mary Ann peeking over his shoulder. He looked up guiltily, and then slowly unwound the piece of gum from his fingers and surrendered it. Mary Ann walked to the front of the room to the wastebasket, deposited the gum, and turned around. There he was, chewing vigorously and de terminedly on another wad. Eileen Poterek also discovered that young students are very conscientious Living Market Challenges Teachers Manufactured products are primarily prepared for the market, but teach ers' products are prepared for living. The educative product may be a blond, pig-tailed little girl whose teacher has taught her how to print her name, how to share her paints with the shy girl beside her, and, in some cases, how to say her prayers. Or the end product may be a lanky lad of fifteen whose teacher helped him gradually control his self-consciousness in social discussions. Or maybe the product is an undergraduate who struggled to interpret correctly Darwin's the ories of evolution, and whose teacher taught him the interpretation in the light of Christian wisdom. Teachers produce by recognizing the possibility of influencing the youth looking up to them, and the consequent giving of self to their respon sibility the caring of the mind, body, and soul. The art of the profession stems from a love for the product, as complex, gregarious, or awkward as he or she may be. The teacher delves into a human being, molding his intellect into correct thinking, equipping his body with habits of cleanliness and strength, guiding him toward personal and social adjustment by providing challenging goals, stimulating materials, and vicarious experiences. Catholic schools, often over-crowded, lacking in high salaries and eye-ar resting buildings for their four million students, look to the young Catholic teacher for support in developing the whole child. Catholic teachers can also help in giving to the five million Catholic stu dents in secular schools the guidance needed in their quest for truth, the core of life around which everything else must evolve. With the present teacher-shortage, school boards are pleading for competent women to draw forth the potentialities of the future minds of America, and thus arises the challenge for the teacher. Her market is the whole world and her end-product is a human being. The SAC kicked off. The ball was intercepted by the Freshman team. They went over the 10, the 20. The Juniors and Seniors called time, and on Patron day they went into a huddle to map their strategy. The Sophomores tackled the Freshman spir it. The crowd went wild. The Seniors formed a solid line in the mezzanine. They carried the ball over the 30, the 40 yard line. Finally with only a few minutes left in the game, the Freshmen forged ahead for a touchdown with 56 over the Seniors' 53 , and Benefit, 1957 was theirs. The score stood Freshmen, 32 of patrons, 24 of ads; Sophomores, 23 patrons and 14 ads. Juniors had 22 for patrons and 17 ads; Seniors totaled patrons, 23 ; ads, 31 . More ads and more patrons won for the Freshmen the congratulations of the competing Sophomore, Junior, and Senior teams and the title, Benefit Champions.'' Monsignor Knox Offers Final Writing Gift Have you ever heard the story of the young bride who was carried away to the harem of King Solomon, yet re mained true to her village lover who came and rescued her from her regal bondage? This is the analogy which Monsignor Ronald Knox used to show our relation to the Sacred Host exposed in the monstrance. Monsignor Knox in cluded this sermon, along with 18 others, in his book, The Window in the Wall, which was published by Sheed and Ward in 1956, a year before his death. The first selection, entitled also The Window in the Wall answers for uf the age-old question, Why does Christ hide behind a veil of bread and wine? It is because, just as the window of a sick-room is veiled to protect the pa tient's weak eyes from the full glare of daylight, so also must our window be veiled, until a time when Ave are free from the malignancy of sin and able to absorb the glory of God. Throughout the book there is evi dence of great devotion to the Faith on the part of the author. Monsignor Knox spent nine years single-hand edly translating the Old and New Testament into English. His life was dedicated to the defense of scrip ture and tradition. Father D'Arcy, a close friend who spoke at the funeral of Monsignor Knox, related how he was a shy man of deli cate health who did not dissipate his gift in mere cleverness. Father D'Arcy's account brought back faint memories of England's Edmund Cam pion, who also was coverted to Ca tholicism while studying at Oxford, and Cardinal Newman, who likewise devoted his life to the defense of the Church. Reading Monsignor Knox is as much a must for every college stu dent as are the works of Cardinal Newman. The book, The Window in the Wall, is not difficult to read. On the contrary it is both enjoyable and beneficial. This is the type of book that can be read in spare moments or that can be meditated on in chapel. It is the type of book that offers inspiration as well as relaxation. It is the type of book that is utterly delightful. Jke 25k udcraper Vol. XXVIII Nov. 4, 1957 No. 3 Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Co-editors-in-chief Maureen Connerty, Geraldine Battista Associate Editors Beatrice Hoang, Marcella Brown Artists Virginia Muzika.- Jean Ricck Assistants Marguerite Phillips, Mary Cart. Alice Bourke, Judi Peiniger, Mary Therese Walsdorf. Judith Angone, Margaret Nicholson. Mary Merlock, Lynda Rousseau Skyscrapings Barbara Guderian Staff News Reporting Class
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